Who doesn’t love to go see exotic/dangerous animals perform goofy tricks while being whipped around by their masters? Well the people may enjoy it, but they animals despise it. These facts come from PETA they are credible because of their role in the ethical treatment of animals. When a circus has to travel from show to show the animals are locked up for upto 100 hours straight with little to no exercise. Forcing animals to perform in circuses by using whips and electric prods is unfair to the animals. It also puts the people who attend these events in danger because who knows when an animal is going to decide enough is enough.
Everyone loves to see animals do silly stunts, but when it comes to training the animals everyone turns their head to the abusive training that they receive. Trainers use,“whips, ropes, bullhooks, electric prods, and other weapons as well as food deprivation,”(PETA). They abuse and starve animals for weeks just to perform one stunt at a show in front of a small crowd. The trainers use these methods to assert dominance over the animal. Circus animals are,“born into captivity and forced to grow up around humans in an unnatural, stressful environment,” (PETA), and they grow up not knowing what it feels like to be free these trainers enslave the animals for their own good, where as a human we wouldn’t want to be enslaved by others and be teased by seeing that other people are still free.
Having a group of people watch a particularly dangerous animal perform tricks doesn’t seem like the best idea. An elephant named Tyke finally had enough of his abusive training and went rogue in the streets of Hawaii. It ended up injuring multiple people before it was brutally shot down in the middle of the street. If keepers aren’t able to keep their animals’ behavior, then attending these performances is putting the audience in danger of these rogue animals.
